Contact Information
1205 West Clark St.
M/C 257
Research Interests
Observational Cosmology
Clusters of Galaxies and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Large Surveys
Data analysis pipelines for surveys, algorithms for data mining
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Research Description
Felipe Menanteau's research interests focus on Observational Cosmology, he uses clusters of galaxies discovered in Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) surveys as signposts to probe the growth of structure in the Universe. He has led the optical/infrared follow-up campaign for the first generation of SZ surveys from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). He also led the discovery of "El Gordo," the most massive cluster known at high redshift. His research also centers on large optical surveys, algorithms for data mining. He led the analysis for the Blanco Cosmology Survey, and is currently working integrating image analysis algorithms for the Dark Energy Suvey (DES) Data Managment at NCSA.
Education
Ph.D (2000), Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University,UK
Lic.(1996), Physics, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
Additional Campus Affiliations
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Research Associate Professor, Astronomy
External Links
Recent Publications
DES Collaboration (2024). Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: redshift calibration of the MagLim lens sample from the combination of SOMPZ and clustering and its impact on cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 2010-2036. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2945
Amon, A., Robertson, N. C., Miyatake, H., Heymans, C., White, M., Derose, J., Yuan, S., Wechsler, R. H., Varga, T. N., Bocquet, S., Dvornik, A., More, S., Ross, A. J., Hoekstra, H., Alarcon, A., Asgari, M., Blazek, J., Campos, A., Chen, R., ... Zhang, Y. (2023). Consistent lensing and clustering in a low-S8 Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1 and KiDS-1000. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 477-503. Article stac2938. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2938
Cheng, T., Sánchez, H. D., Vega-Ferrero, J., Conselice, C. J., Siudek, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Bernardi, M., Cooke, R., Ferreira, L., Huertas-Company, M., Krywult, J., Palmese, A., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. P., Rosell, A. C., Gruen, D., Thomas, D., Bacon, D., Brooks, D., ... Scarpine, V. (2023). Lessons Learned from the Two Largest Galaxy Morphological Classification Catalogues built by Convolutional Neural Networks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(2), 2794-2809. Article stac3228. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3228
dal Ponte, M., Santiago, B., Rosell, A. C., De Paris, L., Pace, A. B., Bechtol, K., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Kind, M. C., Carretero, J., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., ... Weaverdyck, N. (2023). Ultracool dwarfs candidates based on 6 yr of the Dark Energy Survey data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(2), 1951-1967. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad955
Frye, B. L., Pascale, M., Foo, N., Leimbach, R., Garuda, N., Robles, P. S., Summers, J., Diaz, C., Kamieneski, P., Furtak, L. J., Cohen, S. H., Diego, J., Beauchesne, B., Windhorst, R. A., Willner, S. P., Koekemoer, A. M., Zitrin, A., Caminha, G., Caputi, K. I., ... Yun, M. S. (2023). The JWST PEARLS View of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster and of the Structure It Magnifies. Astrophysical Journal, 952(1), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acd929